ducati46cliff. he was the fastest during testing really who cares. zip out of your footie 46 pajamas and read some tidbits you fail to acknowledge as facts cause it proves your hero is a joke.
Ok here are some tidbits that all you people worshiping at the alter of Rossi should know and never ever get talked about because he is and did so much for moto gp (ill give him that much) and the Rossi goggles are on and you dont want to admit it.
Lets break this down. First the 7 titles (Premier class). Rossi 7 titles were due to many factors. best equipment, team, money and for 3 of those titles lack of competition before stoner and lorenzo burst onto the scene.
When bayliss, biaggi and checa where at yamaha, yamaha basically said f you to their requests. when rossi got there they DOUBLED THE STAFF to accomodate him. He got all changes he wanted when all the other riders were told too bad (language adjusted for post) The satellite teams all shared knowledge with the factory teams as well
If rossi is so great of a rider he would have had at least several podiums on the ducati . after two year even with a crap bike he should have done much better. All he did was cry. The Very Same Bike stoner pummeled the competition on.
If the bike was so bad nicky never would have regularly beaten rossi. Its actually embarrassing for what many in this world allege is the best rider to not even be able to adapt his riding to a different bike. The best can and do this all the time. A world class rider adapts riding style to suit the bike.
Lets talk competition and rules for a moment. How many years was rossi allowed to cleanly pass (where other riders wold deliberately pull off the race line watch the races objectivly) and let rossi go by then get back on the race line and fight the next guy? How about being able to pass stoner under yellow flag at Philip Island. how about no punishment for dangerous riding or for passing stoner in the dirt at laguna. finally how about the time he deliberately punted sete off the track. nothing was done ever about any of this.
Stoner has been in the chase 1/4 the amount of time of rossi and out of the 2 riders Stoner is the guy (at the time he did it the only guy) to win at every single track in the moto gp circuit.
Finally rossi had many great riders help before him with the devlopent of the bikes he rode. Yamaha stated that their bike was not far off from the honda. checa bayliss biaggi edwards and sete all help develop the bike rossi road. he reaped the benefits of other great riders before him.
i could go on but its 12 40 am in New York its bed time
